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The teacher's condition of shocked virtue rendered her coldly laconic. "Tissue-paper?" she asked each little girl in turn. "Tissue-paper" was the burden, if not the form, of every alarmed little girl's reply. "Cipher," said the teacher briefly as each made confession, and called the next. O Outer darkness! The teacher at the last closed her book with a snap. "Cipher and worse," she told them.
Holderness suddenly showed he was ill at ease; he appeared to be expecting arrivals from the direction of Seeping Springs. Snap Naab leaned against the side of the door, his narrow gaze cunningly studying the rustlers before him. More than any other he had caught a foreshadowing. Like the desert-hawk he could see afar.
She's got lots of go; she's never idle a minute; she keeps the old gentleman in first-class shape, and she don't believe a bit in the slavery solution of the labor problem; says she's glad it's gone, and if it's anything like the effects of it, she's glad it went before her time. No, sir, she's as full of snap as the liveliest kind of a Northern girl.
It was good fun, and they sang over the dead ashes, "Snip, snap, snurre, Basse lure: The song is ended." But the little invisible beings said, "The song is never ended; the most beautiful is yet to come." But the children could neither hear nor understand this, nor should they; for children must not know everything.
"You have convinced me forever of the futility of all snap judgments," said she, and she marveled at the shyness in her own voice, "but you could never convince me of that. You may go home now, Barbara, for you have worn yourself out. But to-morrow I would suggest that you ask him for corroboration, if you still hold to such an opinion." Instantly Barbara rose and bobbed her head.
"In that case the Emperor, of course, would again resume the throne," I always replied without hesitation. But during those ten years, not one of my friends ever thought to propound the question, nor did I have the wit to ask myself: "What would happen if the Emperor and the Empress Dowager should both suddenly snap the frail cord of life at or about the same time?"
The senator glanced at Jethro, and a twinkle came into his eye. "Sometimes he has been known to," he answered. "You you ever pay any attention to an old soldier on the street?" Then the senator's eyes began to snap. "Sometimes I have been known to." "Er suppose an old soldier was in front of the White House at eleven o'clock an old soldier with a gal suppose?"
Scotty continued his observation a moment longer. "But not all the kid knows, I judge." The host made no comment, and in a distinctively absent manner the Englishman removed his glasses and cleaned the lenses upon the tail of his Sunday frock-coat. "By the way," Scotty returned the glasses to his nose and sprung the bows over his ears with a snap, "what day was it that Blair left?
He never did attempt to bite, and he was only once guilty of barking; but during the grandmother exhibition he could not help throwing up his head and giving a prolonged and unearthly howl. But the naughty baby only laughed quite merrily over the howl, and the two children begged of Snip- snap to do it again.
You know I always loved to tease you; it made your eyes snap and it does now." "How can you?" She looked reproachfully at him. "And I tell you this, Cousin Jule: neither of those girls will ever get up a color like that!" She shook her head, but she was not displeased. He took out a fat chocolate-colored cigar and fingered it wistfully. "I suppose I mustn't smoke?" he queried.
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